Category: Life

Having used my Day 3 poem as an opportunity to vent, I can get back to my normal angsty poems. The napowrimo.net prompt for day 4 is to write a poem based on an image from a dream. Woof. (Note: I don't know who did the painting in the featured image above, but it's hanging [...]

The napowrimo.net prompt for day 3 is to make a list of 10 words, use the Rhyme Zone website to find two to four rhyming or similar sounding words, and then use the assembled list of words in a poem. I started with virus, muck, vomit, infect, bronzed, conjunction, and a few other words (I didn’t save [...]

The napowrimo.net prompt for day 2: ‘write a poem about a specific place —  a particular house or store or school or office. Try to incorporate concrete details, like street names, distances (“three and a half blocks from the post office”), the types of trees or flowers, the color of the shirts on the people [...]

I promised myself I wasn’t going to write a(nother) coronavirus poem. I mostly didn’t. Today’s entry is off-prompt; it was instead inspired by Stephen King’s April Fool’s Day tweet. It’s hard to believe that’s an old song now It never did get any respect The world has moved on and then some— but the Rick [...]